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  • Dorothy Sayers, In A Book Of Her Essays Entitled ...

    Contributed by Rodney Buchanan on Mar 25, 2007
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    Dorothy Sayers, in a book of her essays entitled The Whimsical Christian, has one essay called “The Greatest Drama Ever Staged,” where she writes, “The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore — on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It ...read more

  • There Was A Man In A Community That Had The ...  PRO

    Contributed by Matthew Sickling on Apr 6, 2007
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    There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden ...read more

  • Susan Boyle: Beauty On The Inside  PRO

    Contributed by Marianne Unger on May 22, 2009
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    SUSAN BOYLE: BEAUTY ON THE INSIDE When Susan Boyle stepped out on the stage of "Britain’s Got Talent," people laughed at her...like the scoffers in this Psalm. They made fun of her because her outward appearance wasn’t the glitz and glamour they’d come to expect. Members of the audience could be ...read more

  • Servanthood: The Soloist

    Contributed by Johnny Wilson on Jun 27, 2009
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    SERVANTHOOD: THE SOLOIST There was an interesting movie recently. It bombed at the box office, but it was a very interesting film. "The Soloist" was a true story about a Los Angeles Times columnist named Steve Lopez who discovered a homeless person on the street who, in turn, was a Julliard School ...read more

  • Perseverance

    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Sep 21, 2009
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    PERSEVERANCE Are you ready for a baseball trivia question? Who is Clint Courtney? If you’re unsure, don’t bother requesting the answer from Cooperstown, N.Y. Clint never came close to making it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. In fact, it’s very doubtful that his picture appeared on any bubble gum ...read more

  • The Longer I Walk With Christ The Uglier My Sin ...

    Contributed by Chris Surber on May 9, 2010
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    The longer I walk with Christ the uglier my sin seems to me. The closer into communion with God I am the more desperately thankful to God I am for having forgiven this broken, brazen, bold, sinner’s heart. It is only when we have been in the light that darkness is well defined. Interestingly ...read more

  • Others

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 3, 2010
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    Contrasting Poems on Servanthood Matthew 20:28 "The Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." If He came to serve, what must we do? ILL.- “I gave a little party this afternoon at three— ’Twas very small Three guests in all Just I, Myself, and ...read more

  • What A Contagious Christian Looks Like  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 5, 2011
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    WHAT A CONTAGIOUS CHRISTIAN LOOKS LIKE Bill Hybels, Becoming a Contagious Christian: "Recently, I saw a letter written by a relatively new Christian to the person whose life had influenced hers so greatly. She actually lists about a dozen qualities she found contagious in the life of this older ...read more

  • Margin Or Messiah?

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 24, 2011
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    MARGIN OR MESSIAH? Richard Swenson wrote a book in the 1990's titled, "Margin" in which he describes modern society as so overcommitted and over scheduled that we have no space left for rest. A reviewer writes: Overload is not having time to finish the book you're reading on stress. Margin is ...read more

  • Of Dad Developing "Frozen Shoulder" Pain

    Contributed by Suresh Manoharan on Dec 23, 2011
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    Of Dad developing "frozen shoulder" pain Ouch! My Dad developed a frozen shoulder condition and boy we took him from one hospital to another with no avail, till the “Magnet therapy” did the trick. In this sermon, I intend to touch upon a particular type of “shoulder problem” and the “therapy” ...read more

  • Pastor! Tell Them!

    Contributed by Fred Parker on Oct 23, 2014
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    Written by Pastor Fred Parker Sat, 21st January, 2012 Proverb 15:30 The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: [and] a good report maketh the bones fat.KJV Frankie was a dynamic woman. Her whole life has been spent in ministering to others in her quiet gentle way. As she sat in her wheel chair ...read more

  • Who's Flying The Plane?

    Contributed by Roger Whipp on Dec 31, 2014
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    I guess many here including me have in the past and if honest still do sometimes ask this question “Why God?” or “How can there be a God with all this suffering” Sometimes life hands us some tricky situations. Former President Ronald Reagan likes to tell a story which he says is true about a ...read more

  • Joy Vs. Happiness

    Contributed by Kerry Haynes on Dec 15, 2019
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    Joy (used in "Joy Born at Christmas" sermon - 12/11/2019) From Isaiah 35:8-10 (verses below) Someone once said, “The difference beween happiness and joy is that happiness comes from happenings and joy comes from Jesus.” A few years ago Michael Bublé wrote a song that became very ...read more

  • Sheep Don't Wallow

    Contributed by Davon Huss on Aug 22, 2020
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    A little lamb and his mother passed the pig pen every day on their way to the pasture. The lamb looked longingly at the pigs wallowing in the mire, and he asked his mother if he could go and play in the mud. She’d say, “No, sheep don’t wallow.” But he would look over at those pigs in that mud. ...read more

  • The Spirit Of Fear

    Contributed by Dr. Larry Petton on Jan 31, 2022
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    There was a lady who died in 1916 named Hetty Green. She has been called “America’s greatest miser.” When she died in 1916, her estate was valued at $100 million. But she was so miserly that she ate cold oatmeal in order to save the expense of heating the water. When her son had a severe leg ...read more

  • There Is A Story About A Young Preacher That In ...

    Contributed by Gerald Albers on Jun 5, 2007
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    There is a story about a young preacher that in 1995, he was in Glasgow Scotland. He wrote: I was living in a Center City Hotel. One morning I got up and decided that I was going to jog over into the south side of the city of Glasgow. I ran across the river Clyde on a bridge, and as I jogged ...read more

  • A Young American Engineer Was Sent To Ireland By ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    A young American engineer was sent to Ireland by his company to work in a new electronics plant. It was a two-year assignment that he had accepted because it would enable him to earn enough to marry his long-time girlfriend. She had a job near her home in Tennessee, and their plan was to pool their ...read more

  • Listen To Dietrich Bonhoeffer, A German ...  PRO

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    Listen to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Christian minister who opposed the Nazis and was killed in a concentration camp just weeks before the end of World War II. Cheap Grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness ...read more

  • There Was A Man In A Community That Had The ...

    Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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    There was a man in a community that had the reputation for always being able to catch fish. Regardless of the time of the year it was, or whether anybody else was catching fish, this man was always managed to come back with a boat load of fish. His brother-in-law, who happened to be a Game Warden ...read more

  • I Read Recently About A Group Of Women Who Were ...  PRO

    Contributed by Andy Grossman on Aug 26, 2007
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    I read recently about a group of women who were studying the book of Malachi. As they were studying chapter three, they came across verse three which says: "He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver." (Malachi 3:3) This verse kind of puzzled the women and they wondered what this statement ...read more